Hi, * Thomas Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081127 06:55]: > Am Wednesday 26 November 2008 03:54:42 schrieb Evo: > > NB. In this context when I talk about "turing a monitor on/off" I mean the > > approriate calls to xrandr. > > That's where my problems are: I must use nvidia-settings to turn on/off > the second monitor, since xrandr doesn't work with my binary driver. > I'd love to switch to the open source nv driver, but > * it does crash the whole system when I log of from awesome > * I can not play videos with it > > When I use nvidia-settings to turn on the external monitor, then awesome > takes both monitors as one big screen and maximizes the taskbar and all > windows above both monitors.
Sorry I don't know anything about the nvidia drivers. However I do have a similar situation with a matrox card using a proprietary binary driver. I have this card rendering both displays using a single frame buffer. This resulted in X treating the two displays as one big screen. To have the two monitors treated as two screens I use the Pseudo-Xinerama extension. To get this to work I had to *remove* all references to xinerama in my Xorg.conf. Note that this is a desktop system so I haven't tested its behaviour connecting/disconnecting monitors on the fly. I guess there must be someone out there using awesome and nvidia that can be of more help. Good luck, -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
